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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harry Stedman

Charity warns AI-generated child sex abuse videos ‘now as lifelike as real footage’

AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse have skyrocketed in numbers - (Getty/iStock)

AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse are now “indistinguishable” from real footage, a leading charity has warned.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which finds and helps remove abusive imagery online, said criminals were creating increasingly realistic and more extreme content, and cautioned that technology could soon enable the creation and distribution of feature-length films of such material.

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